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Entombing

Entomb \En*tomb"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Entombed; p. pr. & vb. n. Entombing.] [Pref. en- + tomb: cf. OF. entomber.] To deposit in a tomb, as a dead body; to bury; to inter; to inhume.
--Hooker.

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entombing

vb. (present participle of entomb English)

Usage examples of "entombing".

They were alive with scintillations from the radiation blitz, entombing the giant ship in a nebula of shooting stars.

When they were out of its sight, he felt himself relaxing and moving closer to Kitai out of reflex— as different as the other boy might be, he was more familiar, more friendly than that buglike creature entombing the crow within the glowing wax.

The unfortunate Chenago never had a chance to fire her guns: an hour away from her assigned station she met a heavy sea and foundered, entombing her entire crew of forty-two men ninety feet below the waves.

Almost at once, the vaulted stone entombing us groaned, and cracked, and hugely shuddered.

He dragged his arms from the entombing ground and dug around his sides.

Some said that the name Seven Walls was a reference to the entombing in the foundations of the building, as it was being constructed, of the bodies of seven Shapeshifter warriors slain by Lady Thiin's own hand during the defense of the Isle against Metamorph invasion.